[BusyBox] zlib/contrib/minizip possible replacement for bb gunzip gzip

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Sep 13, 2000 at 10:14:27AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > > >
> > > hmm, i miscalculated... its biger than i thought... damnit
> > 
> > heh.  So what are the real numbers?  What went wrong?  Forgot
> > the 60k shared lib?
> > 
> 
> Yea, thats the one.
> 

Have you checked how large your apps become when statically linking with
zlib?  Just curious,

> I still want to find an easy way to be able to integrate unzip with
> other programs to tie in with ar and tar.
> 
> it would be good if i could setup an interface like unzipFilter(srcFd,
> newSrcFd), where the srcFd is the the compressed file and newSrcFd would
> provide access to normal uncompressed files.

I think that writing such a function using pipes should be fairly straight
forward.  I've been intending to get around to that some time (but I would
be just as happy if someone beats me to it),

 -Erik

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